SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn has passed party vetting to run for Holyrood next year, the PA news agency understands. Mr Flynn previously announced plans to stand for the Aberdeen South and ...
Willie Mullins felt Galopin Des Champs was never jumping well enough to enable him to win a third Boodles Gold Cup at Cheltenham. On a day when the champion trainer won the first four races on the ...
France could even be crowned champions before their match kicks off at 9pm local time in the unlikely event that both England and Ireland slip up.
Maro Itoje has highlighted key elements of aggression, composure and intent when he leads Guinness Six Nations title contenders England into the Principality Stadium cauldron against Wales on Saturday ...
A teacher who groomed and sexually abused a teenage pupil has been described as a “cold, calculating child predator”. Judith Evans was jailed for two years at Belfast Crown Court on Friday for a ...
Sir Christopher Chope said arm’s-length bodies (ALBs) had gone “rogue”, including National Highways when it rolled out smart motorways, and the Sentencing Council, whose recent guidance has prompted ...
A bus driver who hit and killed a Windrush pensioner as she crossed the road has avoided jail. Ozdemir Zia, 77, hit Edna McLean, 83, as he turned his double-decker near Woolwich Arsenal station, south ...
The son of an Oxfam volunteer who was struck and killed by a bus on the world’s longest guided busway said it was “such a preventable accident”, a court heard. Three people died in separate incidents ...
Sir Martyn Oliver, chief inspector of Ofsted, said giving parents the information they need in a clear and accessible way was a ‘must-have’.
A 59-year-old Russian captain was arrested on Monday after his container ship collided with a US tanker off the East Yorkshire coast.
Jasmin De Vaux added to last year’s Champion Bumper success when staying on strongly to strike in the Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham. Paul Townend gave the six-year-old a patient ride ...
Former Bank of England governor Mark Carney was sworn in as Canada’s new prime minister on Friday, and will now try to steer his country through a trade war brought by US President Donald Trump, a ...